Hollywood Bowl Group plc

LSE:BOWL Stock Report

Market Cap: UK£453.0m

Hollywood Bowl Group Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:BOWL Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
DateValueNameEntityRoleSharesMax Price
07 Aug 25BuyUK£17,341Ivan SchofieldIndividual6,900UK£2.51
06 Aug 25BuyUK£56,010Ivan SchofieldIndividual23,000UK£2.44
23 Jul 25BuyUK£24,950Julia PorterIndividual10,000UK£2.49
15 Jul 25BuyUK£2,468Asheeka HydeIndividual1,000UK£2.47
08 Jul 25BuyUK£30,244Darren ShaplandIndividual12,500UK£2.42
07 Jul 25BuyUK£29,701Stephen BurnsIndividual12,427UK£2.39
11 Mar 25BuyUK£77,382Darren ShaplandIndividual30,000UK£2.58
20 Feb 25BuyUK£102,375Ivan SchofieldIndividual37,500UK£2.73
03 Feb 25BuyUK£78,391Ivan SchofieldIndividual28,300UK£2.77
20 Jan 25BuyUK£5,754Julia PorterIndividual2,000UK£2.88
19 Dec 24BuyUK£119,824Peter BoddyIndividual40,000UK£3.00
17 Dec 24BuyUK£39,601Stephen BurnsIndividual13,210UK£3.00

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of BOWL?
Owner TypeNumber of SharesOwnership Percentage
Private Companies00%
Public Companies51,4790.0309%
Individual Insiders6,156,6093.69%
General Public7,785,6504.67%
VC/PE Firms9,920,2375.95%
Institutions142,937,93185.7%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 80.93% of the company
OwnershipNameSharesCurrent ValueChange %Portfolio %
8.87%
Aberdeen Group Plc
14,793,169UK£40.2m-3.54%0.03%
7.55%
JP Morgan Asset Management
12,598,203UK£34.2m0.68%no data
5.95%
Gresham House Asset Management Limited
9,920,237UK£26.9m7.63%1.8%
5.07%
FMR LLC
8,466,925UK£23.0m0%no data
4.99%
Slater Investments Limited
8,325,580UK£22.6m-0.94%2.92%
4.49%
Wellcome Trust, Investment Division
7,497,418UK£20.4m9.64%0.22%
3.9%
Schroder Investment Management Limited
6,511,286UK£17.7m-21%0.01%
3.7%
BlackRock, Inc.
6,170,646UK£16.8m4.27%no data
2.99%
Polar Capital Holdings Plc
4,984,677UK£13.5m-4.78%0.05%
2.95%
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC
4,921,442UK£13.4m-6.13%no data
2.92%
Artemis Investment Management LLP
4,878,067UK£13.2m0%0.05%
2.88%
Royal London Asset Management Ltd.
4,800,460UK£13.0m-2.5%0.02%
2.75%
N.F.U. Mutual Unit Managers Limited
4,587,237UK£12.5m-0.04%0.31%
2.65%
Fidelity International Ltd
4,425,650UK£12.0m2.14%0.01%
2.55%
Janus Henderson Group plc
4,253,353UK£11.5m0%0.01%
2.51%
GLG Partners LP
4,194,049UK£11.4m2.39%0.14%
2.51%
Invesco Ltd.
4,183,404UK£11.4m-8.7%no data
1.94%
Stephen Burns
3,230,526UK£8.8m0%no data
1.69%
Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.
2,817,308UK£7.6m-2.94%0.02%
1.58%
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
2,639,936UK£7.2m-3.32%no data
1.46%
AXA Investment Managers S.A.
2,443,381UK£6.6m-2.08%0.02%
1.29%
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP
2,152,469UK£5.8m1.38%no data
1.28%
River Global Investors LLP
2,137,700UK£5.8m16.3%0.46%
1.27%
Legal & General Investment Management Limited
2,114,658UK£5.7m-1.98%no data
1.19%
UBS Asset Management AG
1,981,660UK£5.4m32%no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2025/11/19 00:45
End of Day Share Price 2025/11/19 00:00
Earnings2025/03/31
Annual Earnings2024/09/30

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

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Analyst Sources

Hollywood Bowl Group plc is covered by 11 analysts. 8 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Jack CummingsBerenberg
Robert ChantryBerenberg
Milo BussellCavendish